Lincoln Antelopes T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska monroe sports Rayne farmers and locals had

Rayne farmers and locals had called the bird the "rice bird" for generations

known for exporting tobacco

already the American League's most famous first baseman

Though rooted primarily in Illinois

Lincoln Antelopes T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska monroe sports Rayne farmers and locals hadThe Lincoln Antelopes of Lincoln, Nebraska are a team where the record books and the newspapers disagree, and we side with the newspapers. Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters, a tidy tribute to the city's namesake. But the Lincoln papers of those seasons tell a different story: day after day, the team was the Antelopes, often shortened to the Lopes, named for the pronghorn that ran the